I ran into a confusing issue with ColdFusion 8
that could affect users that install the enterprise version with the
evaluation option and are using multiple instances.
Here is what led up to this issue occuring for me
- Installed ColdFusion 8 as a multi server install with the evaluation option
- Created an additional instance of ColdFusion
- Entered in a valid serial number into the new instance that I had just created.
- After the evaluation period expired the server responded with
a blank page for requests although some of the requests completed
successfully.
- Looking in the error log for the new server I found the following error.
11/12 17:49:21 error IP license restriction is in effect. Can
only accept connection from either localhost or five IP addresses,
attempted from 192.168.2.9. Previous accesses were from [
{192.150.x.x} {192.168.x.x} {192.168.x.x}
{192.168.x.x} {192.168.x.x} ].
Of course I had seen this error many times before but in the CF
admin (of the new instance I had created) I saw that CF was running
with an enterprise license so it should not have the IP restriction. It
occured to me that the main CFusion administrative server did not have
the license key. After entering the license key in the CFusion admin
and restarting both instances everything cleared up. This will probably
rarely happen but it could be really confusing if it occurs so I hope
this helps someone.
Brandon, 2 years later, this tip saved me a lot of headache in CF9 Enterprise. Thanks!!
And three years later, it helped again. Just don't install a dev edition on a production machine!
